District Magistrate Rajendra Pesia said, “Some miscreants resorted to stone pelting but the situation is peaceful now and the survey is underway.””Around 10 people have been detained in connection with the stone-pelting incident. They are being interrogated,” he added.Uttar Pradesh police chief Prashant Kumar told PTI that the situation was under control in Sambhal.”We are monitoring everything. All police and civil administration officials are handling the situation on the spot. They are patrolling those areas. Anti-social elements will be identified very soon and strict action will be taken against them,” the director general of police (DGP) said.Videos of youths throwing stones at police, purportedly near the site of the survey in Sambhal have surfaced on the Internet.Supreme Court lawyer Vishnu Shankar Jain, who is a petitioner in the case, had said the Court of Civil Judge (Senior Division) ordered the constitution of an “Advocate Commission” to survey the mosque.The court has said that a report should be filed after conducting a videography and photography survey through the commission, he had said.
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